Blossom Server

Blossom Server was an open-source server for online multiplayer video games developed by Jacob Grahn that was released on 2009-05-22 and discontinued in late 2011. A spiritual successor to Blossom known as Jiber was released in November 2017.[1]

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Name

Blossom Server originally started out as Multiplayer Awesome Server before being combined into MultiPlawesome when it was publicly announced.[2]Multi was dropped in the next revision, then it was further simplified into Plossom before receiving its final name.[3]

History

An unnamed "new multiplayer server" was first hinted at in a 2008-12-01 blog before its official reveal five days later under the "MultiPlawesome" name.[4] More news began appearing in the following year, with blogs announcing that Platform Racing 3 would run off it, its new Blossom name[5], that any form of account information could be saved to a database[6], and how it would be made up of two servers to split the work.

blossom-server.com's homepage.

Blossom's website was launched and announced on Newgrounds on 2009-04-04,[7] although the server wouldn't be made downloadable until 2009-05-22.[8][9] Version 1.1 was released sometime in July or August[10], 1.2 in March 2010[11], and the final 1.3 revision between March and April 2011.

Discontinued

While not announced on his website, Jiggmin posted a bulletin on Blossom Server's homepage sometime between 2011-03-09 and 2011-04-11 stating that a 2.0 version would be out soon and the original would remain downloadable in the meantime, though it would no longer officially be supported.[12] However, the update was never released and Blossom's website was shut down later that year for unknown reasons.

The server is possible to set up if a user still has the files, though it's no longer possible to receive free hosting from Jiggmin.